#87 McArthur Wheeler AKA The Lemon Juice Bank Robber and the Dunning Kruger Effect

After missing our first week, we're back, and we've brought a really fun episode (for a change). McArthur Wheeler was an American bank robber, and he found a new and unique way to gain infamy. You see, McArthur is infamous for dousing his face in lemon juice before robbing two Pittsburgh area banks with the belief it would obscure his face from the security cameras.

Wheeler was very wrong about this, and when he was arrested, he was astounded the police had found him. In his own words, 'but I wore the juice, I wore the juice.' And the press this story received spurred one psychologist to look into how this had happened. His research would lead to the formation of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes that low performer's rarely know how badly they perform, and the problems that arise from this.

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